Subject:

Human Rights Policy

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2009

    UW Human Rights Center Gets Green Light, Though No Gas Money

    In a week in which the legislature passed its everything-but-marriage-bill and Barack Obama released the CIA torture memos but said he opposes prosecution of those who enacted the policies, the House passed the bill creating a human rights center at the UW. (We wrote about the bill when it was intro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2009

    D-Day in Olympia

    And H-Hour is 5 PM. After that time, any bill that hasn't passed the chamber that introduced it is dead. No doubt there'll be all sorts of fun and treacherous dealings doing in Olympia between now and then, but here's where some of the bills we've covered--or should have covered--stand for the tim ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2009

    Obama Keeps Lid On Boeing Torture Flights

    Following the lead of no less than the Bush Administration, the Obama administration yesterday moved to protect the secret veil surrounding the use of rendition - a.k.a. torture - flights enabled by a wholly owned Boeing Co. subsidiary based out of Seattle. Though the flights supposedly are to end i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 29, 2009

    Waiting for Godoy: Human Rights for $1 Million

    Godoy Seattle is already a mecca for global public health work, as it's home to the headquarters of big-name organizations like PATH and the Gates Foundation and to the recently established UW Department of Global Health. Could it be a mecca for human rights work as well?Perhaps it could, if Senato ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2009

    US, County Jail Deal

    King County has a preliminary agreement with the Dept. of Justice to prevent deaths and improve the unhealthy conditions in its aging downtown jail. But there seems no end to the county's non-denial denials. Exec Ron Sims says he is "gratified that this agreement acknowledges the jail improvements a ... More >>

  • News

    September 3, 2008

    Harassing Gas

    A Green Party gubernatorial candidate rings a biodiesel merchant’s bell, and gets accused of criminal behavior for it.

  • Blogs

    May 30, 2007

    ACLU Sues Boeing

    A Green Party gubernatorial candidate rings a biodiesel merchant’s bell, and gets accused of criminal behavior for it.

  • News

    January 3, 2007

    Happy News Year

    The year in review, slightly askew.

  • News

    December 27, 2006

    Happy News Year

    The year in review, slightly askew.

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2006

    Rendition Airways

    The year in review, slightly askew.

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2006

    Cosa Rangostra

    The year in review, slightly askew.

  • News

    November 29, 2006

    Flog Is My Co-Pilot

    Boeing is alleged to be a travel agent for torture.

  • News

    June 7, 2006

    Hearts and Future Flowers

    Events of note for the week of June 7-13, 2006.

  • News

    May 10, 2006

    Rachel Corrie's Legacy

    The 23-year-old's 2003 death in Israel poses challenging questions—in court and out.

  • News

    April 26, 2006

    Sobriety Threatened

    Also: the week's viaduct news, Hu meets Clippy, and the city does right by the homeless.

  • Arts

    February 1, 2006

    War Crimes in Crayola

    Children depict the atrocities of Darfur in crayon.

  • News

    December 14, 2005

    We Have the Rights Stuff

    Dec. 14-20, 2005

  • News

    December 7, 2005

    The Drugging of the American Mind

    Dec. 14-20, 2005

  • News

    December 7, 2005

    Chanters of Personality

    Dec. 7-13, 2005

  • News

    September 29, 2004

    Sept. 29-Oct. 5, 2004

    Dec. 7-13, 2005

  • News

    August 25, 2004

    The New Abolitionists

    Freeing 'sex slaves' is now at the top of the human rights agenda, thanks to Christian evangelicals, the Bush administration, and two former Washington politicians, Linda Smith and John Miller. How did the anti-trafficking crusade evolve, and is it being overhyped?

  • News

    January 28, 2004

    Letters to the Editor

    'Ah, Ken Kesey. You know, it's possible that he only had two good books in him.'

  • News

    December 24, 2003

    Ace in the Hole

    'Ah, Ken Kesey. You know, it's possible that he only had two good books in him.'

  • Film

    November 5, 2003

    Seattle Human Rights Film Festival

    Hard truth and soft rhetoric at a political film fest.

  • News

    July 9, 2003

    Intel From Inside

    Police occasionally are authorized to infiltrate groups, and protest organizers are certain they were a target.

  • News

    May 14, 2003

    May 14-20, 2003

    Were talking about four more years of Bush-appointed judges deciding cases brought by John Ashcrofts Justice Department. . . .

  • News

    March 26, 2003

    Letters to the Editor

    'Geov Parrish's column about the death of Rachel Corrie sounds like the kind of deliberate, willful, one-sided, manipulative screed one would expect to find in Pravda. ...'

  • News

    February 12, 2003

    How Should We Impeach Thee?

    Let me count the ways . . .

  • News

    February 5, 2003

    "How dare Miller make fun of innocent children struggling to live through the daily humiliations and crimes of brutal Israeli occupation."

    Let me count the ways . . .

  • News

    July 31, 2002

    All Politics Is Local

    Liberty and Law

  • News

    July 17, 2002

    And You May Kiss the Priest

    While Catholic priests who abuse children get all the headlines, 22,000 have quietly left the active clergy to get married. The church wants nothing to do with them.

  • News

    May 1, 2002

    Standards for protest

    While Catholic priests who abuse children get all the headlines, 22,000 have quietly left the active clergy to get married. The church wants nothing to do with them.

  • News

    April 17, 2002

    Letters to the Editor

    We received an extraordinary number of letters about last week's cover story on the crisis in the Middle East. Some are printed in the paper, and many more appear only on our Web site below. The letters are largely run in their entirety; any factual information they contain has n ... More >>

  • News

    April 17, 2002

    May Day comes early

    We received an extraordinary number of letters about last week's cover story on the crisis in the Middle East. Some are printed in the paper, and many more appear only on our Web site below. The letters are largely run in their entirety; any factual information they contain has n ... More >>

  • News

    March 20, 2002

    Mind of state

    State Legislature screws monorail, loves scooters, and other tales.

  • News

    January 2, 2002

    A dozen rays of hope

    State Legislature screws monorail, loves scooters, and other tales.

  • Arts

    December 12, 2001

    The Rest of the Stories

    Web sources for what's missing from network news.

  • News

    November 14, 2001

    Strange board fellows

    From Unocal to United for Seattle's Jack Creighton—with the Taliban between.

  • News

    December 27, 2000

    White noise

    From Unocal to United for Seattle's Jack Creighton—with the Taliban between.

  • News

    October 18, 2000

    Storming the Gates

    Microsoft faces its first political challenge from shareholders.

  • News

    June 28, 2000

    Calling for a Crackdown

    The city is considering a new system for watch-dogging the police. It could be a national model, but the temptation to compromise may prove irresistible.

  • News

    February 16, 2000

    Clean sweep or cover-up?

    WTO investigations by the City Council and the mayor give off mixed signals.

  • News

    December 8, 1999

    WTO Incidents

    Report Police Misconduct to the ACLU

  • News

    December 8, 1999

    "In three months' time we'll look back and realize how lucky we are — Seattle is on the map."

    Report Police Misconduct to the ACLU

  • News

    November 24, 1999

    The Devil's Dictionary of Free-Trade

    Report Police Misconduct to the ACLU

  • News

    September 22, 1999

    Death to the highest bidder

    Report Police Misconduct to the ACLU

  • News

    September 15, 1999

    The new apparel line

    Sweatshops don't exist, but retailers pay to stamp them out.

  • News

    August 11, 1999

    The fire this time

    The Christian right handcuffs a Kitsap human rights group.

  • News

    April 28, 1999

    SMASH SEATTLE!

    Where and how to mount the barricades.

  • Arts

    March 3, 1999

    The root of the problem

    A one-woman show at ACT looks at violence and racism through a child's eyes.

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